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State looks to more aggressively push parenting programs, career help and contraception

MARKS, Miss. (AP) -- With her hair in a ponytail and her smile quick and wide, it's hard to tell that high school junior Donyell Hollins has been pulling all-nighters for most of the semester to take care of her infant daughter.


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He's charged with second-degree murder in the case that sparked anger across the country

SANFORD, Florida (CNN) -- George Zimmerman returned to central Florida late Saturday and will surrender to authorities before a Sunday afternoon deadline, his attorneys said.


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Since the start of 2010, the highest number of complaints -- 18,196 -- related to damage claims for checked bags, problems for which airlines and the TSA share liability

Travel industry watchers say the mood toward the TSA isn't at its worst right now, but it's at risk of getting there. Ten years since the agency's creation -- and nearly 11 since the last major act of terrorism aboard a U.S. plane -- travelers still detest the TSA.


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So far, one Greek and four American lives have been saved

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A 31-year-old Oklahoma woman helped make medical history and started a chain of "paying it forward" when she decided to donate her kidney to a stranger halfway around the world, a man in Athens, Greece, officials announced Friday.


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An investigation revealed SunTrust increased loan prices for many qualified minorities

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Richmond-based SunTrust Mortgage Inc. has agreed to pay $21 million to resolve a Justice Department lawsuit which alleged that during the boom years prior to the financial meltdown SunTrust discriminated against African-American and Hispanic borrowers.


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Couple that met in mental-health therapy demonstrates that dating is still a possibility

(CNNMexico.com) -- A decade ago, when they didn't even know each other, Carlos and Adriana were diagnosed with schizophrenia; from that moment their love lives became a more complex issue than most people have to deal with.


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Nine members of the group were charged with conspiracy to shoot at, within, or into a building

(CNN) -- More than a dozen alleged members of American Front, a down-on-its-luck white supremacist group, were charged Friday in Florida with participating in paramilitary training, prosecutors said.


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The Catholic Church said the nuns were too focused on social justice and not enough on opposing abortion, euthanasia and same-sex marriage

(CNN) -- The leadership representing most of America's nuns came out swinging Friday against the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, in the face of charges from the Vatican that the nuns are espousing "radical feminism" and straying from church teaching.


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So far, Los Angeles school officials have referred the discipline cases of 604 teachers from the past four years to state authorities who have powers to revoke a teacher's credentials

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- In an expanding investigation into teacher misconduct, Los Angeles school officials are going back 40 years in their internal review of teacher discipline cases in an effort to determine whether any of the instructors should also be referred for possible license revocation, a school spokesman said Friday.


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Prosecutors say he had $135,000 at the time Zimmerman's wife, Shellie, told the court, under oath, that they were indigent

(CNN) -- A Florida judge revoked bond Friday for George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin.


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